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snake

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Wirra-ga-dera
English JS Main: 
snake
English: 
Native name Wirra-ga-dera [Bandy Bandy]
Category: 
fauna: reptiles
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
155
Line: 
164
Respelt: 
wiraga-dara
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 369: native name Wirra-ga-dera about two feet in length, and is eaten by the Natives of New South Wales.

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